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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-20
EAGLE
Boiler w OrkS.
snEA Il MCCARTHY, PrOpr'S
I4O, I42, la Front, Memphis:

ONE or THE LARGEST BOILER SHOPS
~ 10 the South, and the only COMP ete
Roller Il d Sheet-Iron Works In the city.
sSsS uIacIurers Of Heavy Plate Iron
wOrh of every description. Special
antion given to plAntat work.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-20
Big Domestic bargains.

Big Domestic bargains.
We place on sale today three cases
Bookiold Long Cloth, fall SO in.
wide, smooth and soft finished,
guaranteed better value than
you will find anywhere in the
city--our price Is 81 80 per bolt
Of 20 yards.
We also offer two cases Pepperell
10 A Bleached Sheeting (no imi'
tation; you all know what these
goods are). Our price zoe per
yard.
Special Bargain-Two cases Andre
scoggin A Bleached Domestic
No comments necessary. This
celebrated brand speaks for it.
self. Our price 10 per yard.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-20

Meteorological Report.
MsnrHIs, THNx.. May 10, 1887.
Time. Bar. Their. Wind IWe'th.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-20
Special Announcement.

ReS"A few timely hints in regard to
Domeslics would now be in order.
We will say to our patrons in Men,
phis and vicinity: Don't be mieled
by flaming advertisements. Our
prices on all brands Of Domestics
will always be found much lower
than any house in this city can
name (immaterlal what prices may
be quoted). We have the facilities
and we are determined to give
everybody the benefit OF the closest
possible prices.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-20

10 nm m ants,
Remnants OF Oolored Drets Goods.
Remnants Of Black Dress Goods.
Remnants OF Embroideries.
Remnants OF Satins and Ginghams.
All Marked TO Close Far
Below Market Value.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
Let Them Come Together.

That class of our citizens whom for
tunate circumstances have placed above
the necessity of daily toll for scant
wages, do not give as much attention
to the labor question as it deserves at
their hands. Their own personal stake
in it-for every man, big or little, has
an important stake in movement so
widespread as the labor movement has
come to be-if nothing else, should i'm
pei them to give it attention, with a
view to turning in the right direction,
a tide that has plainly come to be too
strong to be stayed altogether.
However many labor leaders may go
wrong, the mass of the working men
only want what is right. That mass
has no natural sympathy with anarch-
ism, or any new theories of proposed
law to overthrow the just rights of
property holders. In free country
like this, where every man is practically
equal, every man should be in alliance
to influence labor movements in the
right direction, whether he wears broad
cloth and has big income, or dresses
in cheap clothes and lives off dollar a
day, earned by hard work in mine, in
a shop, or in the field.
Such an alliance, instead of being I'M
natural, as some would think it, would
be both natural and nOurishing to the
growth of our business interests and
our country's glory, since it is only be-
cause the average employer has come
to regard the average employe as a
shirk and a rogue, and the average en-
ploye to regard the average employer as
tyrant and a swindler, that we are
prevented from becoming a perfectly
contented and prosperous people.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
Physiology and Hygiene.
FACTS, THEORIES AND EXPERIENCES
IN EVERYDAY LIFE.


DR.. Hedges, of Plainfeld, n. J., has
declared against toasted bread. He
speaks of it as IAN innocent looking
thing, and yet, like the Grecian horse
before the walls of Troy. it works sad
havoc when once inside" He gives
facts from his own experience to show
that toast is not at all times innocent
and free from the capacity to do harm,
as is generally believed. 1t is, he
claims, dangerous in gastro-intestinal
diseases. He has found it positively
dangerous in convalescence from ty-
phoid fever, dysentery and other intes-
final affections, and relates cases in
which, the patients being fed with
toast, severe relapses occurred, one OF
which proved fatal in few hours.
sit would seem as if the gritty par
ticles of charcoal, insoluble in the juices
in the stomach, are showed up and down
over the irritable mucus membrane like
so much powdered glass, and, finding
their way into the intestines, scratch
the infamed Peyer's patches, renewing
the infammatory action and engender-
ing perforatiOn.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

How ap Abilene man, having the
best interest of the town in view, can
oppose and aid in the effort now being
made by the railroads and manufac-
turerS of our larger cities, to hasten the
repeal of the Interstate Commerce law,
is amystery to us. There must be some
thing behind the scenes. The law is
just what Abilene wants. The low
rates on the ''long haul" and higher
rates on the "short haul" has hereto
fore operated against the growth and
industrial interests of our town. The
packing business, for instance, could
not succeed here for the simple reason
that Kansas City could ship pork to
Denver at much less cost than we could.
Again. if we wanted to ship car load
of flour or grain to Texas, it costs US
half as much to ship it to Junction City
as to Kansas City. 1t is clearly our in
terest to defend the law.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

The evidence given before the Pacific
Railroad Commission by Pres. Adams
and Vice-Pres. Huntington would in
dictate that the nominal heads of rail
road corporations, like those of banks,
are simply figureheads and draw
their very liberal salaries for their
names rather than their services.
When a railroad is investigated, the
President or Vice-President is always
found to be in blessful ignorance of
the financial methods in vogue and to
have trusted implicitly to some beauti-
fully upright person for the correct
ness of the corporations accounts.
And when a defalcation occurs in a
bank the President is always found to
have had no knowledge of the banks
condition until informed of the hollow
ness of the safe and the flight of the
cashier to Canada.-N. Y. World.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

A protective tariff makes the farmers,
the laborerS and all consumers, insurers
of certain profit to the already power
full combination of manufacturers.
While the mechanic must depend upon
the demand there is for his skill and
labor, the labOrer must also take his
chances in the same way, and be con-
tent to accept such wages as his SER
vices will command and the farmer
must depend upon the demand and sup
ply for the sale of his farm product, and
not unfrequently will sell at ruinOus
prices, while the manufacturers have
monopoly in their lines. They can al
ways sell at profit all they need to
do is to sell about as cheaply as the
same article can be furnished for from
a foreign market, plus the protection
of the duty. The duty paid on the
foreign article is the amount of
ROYALTY the manufacturer charges for
his goods. All other industries are
compelled to divide their labor and
products with him. Protection is but
another name for the systematic plum
der of the farmer, laborer, and all the
industrial interests of the country, by
class of monopolists that should be
claSsed with corporations, stock jobbers
and Wall street brokers, and who are,
in part at least, composed of the same
men who control the corporate interests
of the country.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
A Deception of the Senses.

Marryatt's story of the old sailor who
used to wrap his two wooden legs in
flannel because he felt rheumatic Mains
LII them, need not be considered alto
gether extravagant. 1t is said that
after part of limb has been amputa-
ted, person may feel as if it were still
entire, OF may feel pain in the foot
when the leg has been taken off far
above the ankle. Psychologists explain
tins as follows: The severed nerve in
the stump is irritated and causes main.
as this irritation in the nerve trunk has
hitherto been caused by irritation of its
hiaments in the foot and leg, the mind
continues to believe that the sensation
comes thence. Another case of re-
ferred sensation occurs when a new nose
Is formed by bringing a flap of skin
from the forehead down over the nasal
bones. The flap is not entirely severed
but retains its connection with the
deeper tissues at a point between the
eyes. For some time after the opera
ton, any irritation of the nose is re-
Ierred by the mind to that part from
winch the skin is taken. If a fiy
erawls over tho nose, it appears to the
patient to be creeping over the fore
head.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

A paper must be either very foolish
or very false which tries to persuade
its readers that the existing Interstate
Commerce Law is the work of Mr..
Reagan, of Texas. Mr.. Reagan's bill
was entirely set aside by the Republi-
can Committee of Republican Senate.
Not line, a word, or a letter was left
of it. 1t was all stricken out save the
enacting clause; and there was substi-
tuted for it the bill drawn by Mr.. Cul-
lom, the Republican Senator from Hi
nois. That is the measure which is
now law-not a single change was
made in it. Why should there be anv
prevarication upon the subject?- Gin
einnati Enquirer.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

Mr.. c. P. Huntington, Vice Presi-
dent of the Central Pacific Road, on
his examination before the official in
vestigation, acknowledges that Sc. OOO-
600 was expended for which no vouch-
ers were taken in eleven years. And
now the public asks for an explanation
which it fails to get. 1t may be well
to remember that the right of the pub
lie to ask for an explanation arises
from the law requiring the road to nav
certain portion of its net earnings to
the United States in return for money
and credit loaned. The managers have
grown rich, while the net earnings
have been so small as to leave NOTHING
for the United States.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

Every interference with the laws
of trade works HARM" says an Oppo-
nent of the Interstate Commerce law.
That is true. The railroads by COM
bination, and with watered stocks and
bonds and by arbitrary changes, were
interfering with the laws of trade ser
iously to many localities and branches
of business, and that is why the Inter
State law was passed. The law in
itself may prove defective in some of
its features, but the principle of the
law will remain on the statutes in some
form or another, beyond all peradven-
fire
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
SHERIEE'S SALE.

Under and by virtue of an order OF sale issued
by the Clerk of the District Court Of Dickinson
County, State OF Kansas, in a cause pending
therein, wherein The Travellers Insurance Com
pany is plaintiff, and David Mccoy, Susan Nc
Coy, G. c. Hail. and Alfred W. Rice and Henry
H. Floyd, partners as Rice & Floyd, are defend
ants, will, on
Saturday, May 2Sth, A. D. 1887,
at the front door OF the court house. in the city Of
Abilene, County OF Dickinson, State OF Kansas,
at II O'Clock a. m of said day sell 70 the highest
bidder for cash. the following real estate, tO-wit
strip OF land containing sixty l60J acres on the
west side OF the northeast quarter OF section
twenty (2O) and the west side OF the southwest
quarter Of The southeast quarter OF section seven
teen IS), all in township thirteen l13l south, In
range l. east OF the sixth principal meridian, ex-
tending southwark from the right OF way Of the
Union Pacific Railroad On said section twenty (20)
to the north line of said southwest quarter OF the
southeast quarter OF section seventeen az, in
Dickinson county, State OF Kansas, superior
TO the interest Of each and all said defendants
herein. Thes said real estate will be sold pursuant
to the Judgment Of the court In said cause recited
in said order Of sale
witness my hand this 18th day Of April, a.
d. 1887. .. MILLER,
35-5w. Sheriff Of Dickinson county, Kan
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
The Public Interest.

The public interest in the Pacific
Railway investigation goes much deeper
than the amount of money involved.
1t is, to be sure, a great injustice to the
taxpayers to rob them of the percent
ages in the net earnings of the roads to
which they are entitled under the law.
These are needed to create fund for
the payment of the large loans which
the Government made to these corpora
tions. One would suppose that the
magnates whom the Governments
bounties have made ''rich beyond the
dreams of avarice" might be satisfied
to pay their lobbyists out of their own
swollen pockets. But it adds deeper
injury to the wrong to have percentage
of the peoples own money taken to
corrupt their servants and to impair
the value of their securities.
1t is, however, the interference of
these corporations in politics and their
perversion of the Government to their
own sordid ends that most concerns the
people. Mr.. Huntington nonchalantly
admits that he maintained skilled pro-
moters and preventers of legislation at
Washington to ''see that the position of
the company received no damage" 1t
was part of their duty, he has hereto
fore said, to ''look AFTER the executive
and even the judicial departments of
the Government. He has given these
men large amounts of money, asking
no questions and requiring no vouchers
as to its use. The relation of the COM
panies to the Government being that of |
a debtor, and in one sense a partner, no |
member of the Government, in any
branch, could have any purpose except |
to protect the peoples interest. The |
framing and introduction of cunning |
funding bills, intended to avoid pay
ment altogether, the diversion of bust
ness from the subsidized roads to
private lines owned by these manipula-
tors, and constant succession of at
tempts to profit the corporations at the
expense of the people, show what the
money was used for.
To accomplish these ends honest legis-
lators have been beaten in convention
or at the polls by railroad money.
Agents and lawyers of the corporations,
and in the fragrant case of Senator STAN
ford and others, their very officials have
been elected to Congress to ''see that
the position of the companies received
no damage" Campaign corruption
funds have been swollen by the con-
tributions of these interested parties.
1t is this invasion of the domain of pol
itics and of Government by the railway
kings that is their greatest effense.
'sThat way danger lies" The World
has undertaken to see that the people
are forewarned, in order that they may
be foreamed.-N. 7. World. IL
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
SHERIFF'S SALE.

T TNDER AND By VIRTUE OFAN 0RpER
u OF sale issued by the Clerk OF the District
Court Of Dickinson County, State Of Kansas, in a
cause pending, therein, wherein The Travellers
Mccoy, Susan Mccoy, Cyrus w. Legget, Carrie
A. Legget, George w. Carpenter, Samuel n HIT,
A. w. Rice and H. III. Floyd, partners as Rice &
Floyd, and c. @, Hall, Defendants Will On
Saturday, May 28th, a. d. 1887,
at the front door Of the court house, In the city
OF Abilene, County Of Dickinson, state OF K6nsa&
az 10 oclockA. NJ or said day, sellto the highest
bidder for cash, the following real estate, teytl
Lot six 90 In block one % 10 George W. Carpen:
ter's addition TO the city OF Abilene, KANSAS,
prior to the interest OF said defendants herein
named, in Dickinson county, state OF Kansas
The said real estate viii be sold pur.
suant TO the judgment Of the Court In said eanse
recited In said order OF sale
witness my hand this 18th day OF April An
1887. J. j. MILLER.
35-3t Sheriff OF Dickinson County Ran
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
"Itreouires ms to he Unfair

"1trequires us to be unfair"
That is, in effect, what the railroads
are saying of the Interstate Com
MERGE law.
Yet the. Commission gives official in
depreciation to the law, saying in the
plainest of plain English to the roads,
that no possible harm can come to
them under it for anything they may
do, provided they can show that is done
in good faith. 1t is intended to re-
quire them to repair injustices. They
construe it as meaning that the injus-
tees shall be multiplied.
And if they think that the people
are oblivious of the real purpose of the
course they are pursuing, then the
foolisheSt old ostrich that ever stuck
its head in the sand, supposing its
body to be thereby hid, was the most
SOlomonic of old birds in comparison.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
Moistening the Air of Rooms.

In close, unventilated room. saws
scientific writer, the impure air NAV
be easier tolerated by the lungs when
saturated with moisture; but, with
the constant supply of fresh out of
door air with which every apartment
should be supplied, any artificial adj
dition of aqueous vapor is both unnec-
eSSary and useless; and only in very
exceptional cases is it likely to pro-
duce any beneficial effect upon the
health of the persons breathing it.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
Notice of Final Settlement.

In the Probate Court of Dickinson county, state
of Kansas.
ceased.
Creditors, and all persons interested in the
estate of Peter Boor, deceased, are hereby noti-
fed that the undersigned, administrator OF tne
estate of Peter Boor, deceased, intends to make
final settlement az the next term OF said Probate
Court, and on the 9th day Of July, A. d.. 1857, OF
as soon thereafter as hearing can be had.
HESRY II. MCDONALD,
a5st Administrator.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
A complete resume of the track lay

A complete resume of the track lay
ing and railway building of the United
States for 1887, extending over the
whole country, has been published, and
from which it appears that there is
new track projected amounting to 81
S47 miles, at least $4,000 of which, it
is claimed, will be laid this year. There
are accounts also furnished of track to
be relaid of 2S,S56 miles. This would
require, according to the estimates,
fully ,250, coo tons of steel rails. The
outlook is good for general revival of
business during the present year.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

The Topeka Democrat says: sgt
would seem that every spirit of reck-
lessness and want of ordinary judgment
had taken possession of the city admin
istration. That during the. three
four or four weeks of the present Mayor.
more has occurred to mortify and dis
gust our people than was ever witnessed
under any administration in Topeka
Send your city officers to the booming
city of Abilene, and let them take a
few lessons from our worthy Mayor
and city fathers, and you viii have less
reason to complain in the future.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
Publication Notice.

To Peter F. Ault, of Nebraska,
You are hereby notified that you have been sued
by l.. b. West by his petition filed in the District
Court Of Dickinson county, state of Kansas on
the 2lst day Of April, 1887, wherein he seeks to
foreclose mortgage in the sum of one THOUSAND
dollars and interest thereon at the rate Of twelve
per cent. per annum from the LIST day of June
1855, and mortgage of one hundred and ninety,
three and 92-l0O dollars and interest thereon AZ
the rate Of twelve per cent. per annum from tho
LIST day Of June, 1885, upon the following described
real estate, situated in the county Of Dickinson
and state OF Kansas, to-wit: the west half of the
southwest quarter OF section twenty COY, in town.
ship eleven (D, south Of range three 90, east OF
the sixth principal meridian.
You are further notified that unless you answer
said petition on or before the 10th day Of June,
1887, the same will be taken as true and Judgment
will be rendered against you, foreclosing said
mortgage and ordering a sale of the said real
estate In satisfaction Of said mortgage and debar-
ring you from any and ali interest in and to said
real estate. L. B. WEST
BY c. =. Mead, his attorney. 353t
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

Mrs. ParishiOner: SIS it possible ?
And your wife is deaf mute % Amer
lean minister eyes, she was born so"
''How terribly she must feel the affiic-
ton" "On the contrary, she is the
happiest minister's wife in the coun-
try" Indeed ~ Eyes, she never
hears a word the congregation says
about her,"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

The papers have started sensational
report that Colonel Lamont, President
Cleveland's private secretary, had just
held long confidential interview with
Governor Hill, at the Hoffman House
in New York; that a full understand
ing was arrived at for 1888. Hill to
run for Governor, and Cleveland for
President. This report is all bosh.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

Easily accounted for. Bill collector
''See here, I have written you dozen
letters about that bill you owe my firm,
and you havn't even recognized them"
Country editor "Were they written on
both sides of the sheet ?' ''Of course"
"All such communications go into the
waste basket without reading"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

Secretary and Mrs. Whitney have
made gift of $4,000 to the orphanage
connected with st. Johns Episcopal
church, in Washington. 1t was in this
church the cabinet baby'' was christ
ened a few weeks ago, and given the
old fashioned name of Dorothy.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

81 see that some newspaper men have
formed club, and called it the Home
less Club, - remarked Robinson. docs
that mean that they have no homes ?"
"No," replied Lighthead, sit only
means that they will be home less than
ever now"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

The railroads attribute the advance
in freights to the Interstate Com
MERGE law. There can be no possible
question but that the advances are
arbitrary and to-day unwarranted by
any legitimate necessities of the roads.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
Walking cultivators, Riding cultivat
ors, Disc cultivatOrs.
F, II. BOARDMAN 81 Co.

The Gem" Barber Shop, under E.
A. Bishop & Co.'s store, has been re-
nodded and fitted up in fine shape
All wishing first class shave, hair cut,
shampoo, &C., should give the Gem"
a call. A. ROHRIG s. Son.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
Notice Of Appointment.
STATE OF KANSAS,

STATE OF KANSAS, a..
In the matter of the estate OF Andrew j. Wilcox,
late of Dickinson county, Kansas
Notice is hereby given, that on the 2lst day of
Anrii a d. Iss5. the undersigned was, by the
Probate Court Of Dickinson county, Kansas, duly
Amounted and qualified as administrator OF the
estate of Andrew j. Wilcox late OF Dickinson
comfy. deceased All parties interested in said
estate viii take notice, and govern themselves
sccordin0Iv HoKTos WILCOX,
FEED A. WILCOX,
a. Administrators.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

We have been in the real estate bust
ness for number of years and think
that the largest number of deals are
made by trading, and therefore we are
prepared to make all kinds of land
trades for stock or city property. If
you have anything to trade call and see
us. J. H. BRADY & Co.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05

Everybody take chance in the
Cedar St. house and lot drawing. Only
$3.50 a number. A good house and
Outbuildings, fruit, etc., lot 5Ox175.
Who knows but you may be the lucky
man. Try it. For particulars inquire
of JAMES ADAMS,
26-tf. Abilene, Kas.